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PARALLEL WORKSITES.:

The study of Belfiore and the Bible of Borso. 1447-1463.

From 13 December to 22 April 2019

National Gallery of Ferrara

National Gallery of Ferrara

Corso Ercole I d'Este, 21, Ferrara

Closed today: open tomorrow at 10:00

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From December 13, 2018 to April 22, 2019, the National Gallery of Ferrara at Palazzo dei Diamanti hosts one of the most important Renaissance manuscripts in the world, a masterpiece among the most representative of the figurative civilization born in the ancient capital of the duchy, now preserved at the Estense Library in Modena. The Borso d'Este Bible is the centerpiece around which the exhibition Parallel Construction Sites. The Belfiore Study and the Borso Bible. 1447-1463 curated by Marcello Toffanello will revolve. The illustration of the Bible, created by a team of illuminators led by Taddeo Crivelli and Franco dei Russi, constituted one of the two artistic construction sites in which the style of the Ferrarese school of the Renaissance was forged. The initiative also inaugurates the new room of the National Gallery dedicated to the Belfiore Study at Palazzo dei Diamanti, a space wanted for the first time by Leonello d'Este in the mid-fifteenth century as a place dedicated to meditation and intellectual pleasures. Alongside the Borso d'Este Bible, another illustrious guest is the painting depicting the muse Polymnia, coming from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, which reunites with Erato and Urania with which it was part of the pictorial decoration of this space. A selection of Renaissance medals, coins, and ancient gems from the collections of the Estense Gallery in Modena recalls how the study was also a place dedicated to the accumulation and exhibition of the first humanistic collections. A touch screen created by FrameLAB, a laboratory of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, also allows the public to virtually visit the study, admiring and questioning the mysterious muses that inhabited it. A second multimedia station will allow visitors to virtually browse the entire Bible. For the occasion, the National Gallery of Ferrara offers the public ten completely renovated rooms. Thus, the work of technological adaptation and museographic updating started in 2016 with the reorganization of the exhibition spaces dedicated to altarpieces of the first half of the sixteenth century and culminating with the polyptych of Costabili by Garofalo and Dosso Dossi is completed. Now visible to the public are the works of Gentile da Fabriano, Mantegna, Cosmè Tura, and Ercole de' Roberti, in an exhibition path that will lead the visitor through the events of Ferrarese painting from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. An exhaustive system of informative apparatuses, including graphic reconstructions of dispersed complexes, will suggest a new reading of the collecting history, the original function, and the evolution of types of works such as altarpieces. New attention will also be dedicated to seventeenth and eighteenth-century painting, with four rooms reserved for them, which will be added to the one dedicated to the large canvases of Scarsellino and Bononi inaugurated in the fall of 2016.
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Corso Ercole I d'Este, 21, Ferrara, Italy

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monday 24:00 - 24:00
tuesday 10:00 - 18:00
wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
thursday 10:00 - 18:00
friday 10:00 - 18:00
saturday 10:00 - 18:00
sunday 10:00 - 18:00

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